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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
5
A jumble of notices records shipments to Kansas City and St Louis, visits to Milan and Meadville, and residents traveling to Lincoln and Nebraska. Names include Buxton, Braden, E Rinehart, Monty, Keithley, Milan, Marceline, and Me. services at M E Church and Chautauqua attendances noted.
Real estate transfers listed from Miller Higgins abstracts Mulhall Missouri. Properties include A S Linville and Ora G Smart tract Sec 7 53 18 priced at 900. F E Lewis and wife to John Page 9 acres Sec 18 61 18 priced at 500. John Page and wife to Methinda Page 40 acres Sec 18 61 18 priced at 700. Robert M Alexander and wife to William T McKee acres Sec 10 62 21 priced at 125. W T Fisher and wife to Etta Todd tract in Osgood Missouri priced at 709. W L Jones and wife to George Jones 40 acres Sec 32 61 15 priced at 700. Ephraim Hess and wife to K K Bardon 6 acres Sec 20 02 20 priced at 1500. Della Hillagans and husband to J N Williamson 16 acres See 15 64 20 priced at 150. Norman H Jaynes single to Amos A Jaynes tract See 1 2 14 62 22 priced at 1000. Joba Ty Good and wife to Heb Kile 26 and 85 acres See 17 63 18 priced at 1600. Jonathan Jones and wife to Albert R Walker 80 acres See 17 62 18 priced at 2809. George G Schultz and wife to George and Nora E Schultz 5 acres in Sec 3 14 62 20 priced at 2500.
The text lists twelve admonitions attributed to King Charles I. They cover urging no healths and keeping peace with divine ordinances, touching no state matters, revealing no secrets, picking no quarrels, avoiding comparisons and ill opinions, keeping good company, avoiding wagers, not lingering over meals, and not repeating grievances. It presents a compact moral code for prudent conduct.
A vivid scene describes a Rocky Mountain burro pursuing a thistle as a favorite food. The donkey studies the plant, sniffs, and tests its defenses, then lifts a hoof to tread and finally breaks the stem to feed, savoring the last remnants.
Old men over sixty suffer prostate and kidney troubles. Foley's Kidney Cure claims to correct irregularities and relieve enlarged prostate. Testimonial from Robert Burnett of Rockport Maine credits two bottles with apparent long-term relief.
California grower has three tomato plants growing to 9 feet tall on a 2 foot trellis in three months. The trunks measure 1.5 inches, foliage is dense, and the plants produced enormous quantities of large flavored fruit with no special care or weather protection.
An August earthquake destroyed Valparaiso Chile similar to San Francisco’s disaster months earlier. Many buildings collapsed and fire followed the quake. Of 150 000 inhabitants 400 000 homeless and about 2 000 dead. Property loss around a quarter billion dollars. Wide territory suffers damage across other towns.
The piece mixes an Imperial Flour ad promising one dollar sacks with multiple unrelated lines about ball games kidney cures and threshing era wages. It mentions Browning crowds and labor changes, Foley’s kidney cure by L. C. Lantz, and growth in farm work and land use over time.
W. Sullivan of Sullivan House endorses Hallard's Snow Liniment for rheumatism relief promising immediate effects. Advertises 25¢ 0 and $1.00 sizes sold by Whaley & Dols in U1 Keno O. PT. Recommends the product to all afflicted.
An advertisement for Com City Business College in Quincy Illinois proclaims it the largest business college in America with 1400 students and 2 teachers. It promotes courses in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship banking and more and claims graduates readily secure employment. A free 64 page illustrated catalogue is offered with admission details and address.
An old advertisement claims a bile fluid remedy eases biliousness indigestion and headaches from overindulgence. A Checotah agent reports a customer cured after two years with bladder and spleen enlargement. Distributed by Waarey and Sons.
This excerpt surveys multiple theories on hail formation. It posits hail as onionlike ice with concentric coats formed by repeated freezing and discusses ideas of charges in clouds driving growth and a giant whirl carrying hail through atmospheric layers.
Mary Crawford France recalls a late imperial banquet with former rebels and shogunal leaders present. She notes Prince Tokugawa's impassive gaze changing to warmth as the emperor honors him for relinquishing power for Japan’s good.
R A Gray J P of Oakland Indiana says ten years in bed with kidney diseases left him immobile at times. After trying top physicians with no relief, Foley's Kidney Cure restored his health and was called a God send by Gray and L C Lantz.
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